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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 15, 20164 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 15, 2016, 6:39 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 15, 2016, 6:39 PM EDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 2016, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Cook County, GA, Lowndes County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1629 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 880 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 14, 8:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	31 min
Aug 15, 3:44 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Franklin, Walton	16 hr
Aug 15, 12:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		27 min
Aug 15, 12:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		65 min
Aug 15, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	52 min
Aug 15, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	45 min
Aug 15, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	46 min
Aug 15, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	47 min
Aug 15, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	37 min
Aug 15, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks	40 min
Aug 15, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks, Colquitt	37 min
Aug 15, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	33 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.